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Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-06

IT is rumored that the drama of
Hamlet" is about to be adapted to Re-
publican exigencies. The sudden ap-
partition of Roscoe Conkling in the po-
litical arena will furnish the ghost.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-06

THE representatives OF physical and
intellectual force have met John L.
Sullivan has called upon Grover Cleve-
land.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-06

THE popular blood purifier, Hoods
Sarsaparilla, is having tremendous sale
this season. Nearly everybody takes it
Try it yourself.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-06

The importance of purifying the blood can
rot be oyerestimated, for without pure blood
you cannot enjoy good health.
At this season nearly every one needs a
good medicine to purify, vitalize, and enrich
the blood, and we ask you to try Hoods
Poot,I;on Sarsaparilla. 1t strengthens
CSditoi and builds up the system,
creates an appetite, and tones the digestion,
while it eradicates disease. The peculiar
combination, proportion, and preparation
Of the vegetable remedies used give to
Hoods SarSaparilla peeul- t. I4ooIe
lar curative powers. No ~ IlSSlI
othermedicineh has such record of wonderful
cures If you have made up your mind to
buy Hoods Sarsaparilla do not be induced TO
take any other instead. II is a Peculiar
Medicine, and is worthy your confidence.
Hoods SarSaparilla is sold by all druggists.
Prepared by c. l. Hood s. Co., Lowell, Mass.
90 Doses One Dollar
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-06
BANKS.
BANKS.
U. S. DEPOSITORY.
Union National Bank,
SALT LAKE CITY.
CAPITAL, FULLY PAID, 100000.
SURPLUS, $4,000.

TNRANSACTS A GENERAL BANKING BUSI-
i ness. Prompt and careful attention given
to collections.
Special attention given to the sale of ORE
and BULLION.
Correspondence:
New York-Importers' and Traders National
Bank.
" Central National Bank
Chicago-First National Bank
Omaha-0maha National Bank
Commercial National Bank
st. Louis-State Savings Association.
Denver-German National Bank.
Gunnison. Col.-First National Bank
Ogden-Utah National Bank.
Commercial National Bank
Butte City-First National Bank
Helena-First National Bank.
Boise City-First National Bank of Idaho
Ketchum-First National Bank.
Portland, Oregon-First National Bank
Baker City, Oregon-First National Bank
San Francisco-Bank of California.
We also draw exchange direct on the princi
pal cities of the United Kingdom and Cont
mental Europe.
THE ONLY SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS
IN THE TERRITORY.
Boxes s.......--.-.... From s. to SIS per annum
JOSEPH Il. WALKER. b. G. RAYBOULD.
President. Hashiar
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-06
LEWIS 3. ROGERS,
! INSURANCE. !

THE LION FIRE INSURANCE CO.,
OF London, England. Capital and assets,
$4,694, $685.
WASHINGTON F. & M. ms. CO.,
OF Boston, Massachusetts. Capital and assets,
S1,551,850.
ORIENT INSURANCE CO.,
OF Hartford, Connecticut. Capital and assets,
1886, ,55034
NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE ms. co,
Of Milwaukee, Wis. Assets, $24, ,265, PSI.
HOME MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY of
California. Assets, $685., ,269.02.
OFFICIAL Safe Deposit Vaults. Union Ma
tional Bank
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-06
THE CONKLINC
SAMPLING WORKS.
Ores and BuIIion Carefully Sampled

CPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO THE
- Sale of Ores and Bullion.
Mill, South Temple street, between Utah &
Nevada and Utah Central Railroad Dep is
Office. No. lis Main street, upstairs, room
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-04-02

General Boulanger has retaliated upon
Bismarck, who has begun to Germanize
Alsace and Lorraine by suppressing all
French societies that exclude Germans
from membership. and making the study
Of German obligatory in the public
schools Boulanger has forbidden all
officers of the French army to employ
any German servants, male or female, or
as governesses or tutors. The occasion
of this order is the discovery that the
governess Of the children of General
Davonet, commanding the Fourteenth
army corps at Lyons, is the wife of a
Prussian officer who was murdered on
the frontier. A London correspondent
writes that Boulangcr feared that the
governess might be prompted by patriot
ism 10 prowl about at night making
maps Of forts and drawings Of repeating
rifles Only short time ago Germany
was highly indignant because toy school
houses, manufactured in France and sold
10 German children, had maps upon the
walls on which AIsace and Lorraine were
represented as being parts Of France. But
all these straws indicate the direction of
the wind
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-04-02
A Duel with Lassoss on Horseback

Cowboys become very skillful riders,
and they are sometimes fond of ''showing
off," writes ]. T. Trowbridge in the
Hunters Companion. In Southern Col
orado l witnessed some performances
which were as good as any equestrian
feats ever saw. A cowboy rode through
the streets of small town at full gallop,
picking up whatever was thrown in the
way before him-a hat, whip, hand
kerchief. This he did by shooting from
the saddle, putting down one hand to
the ground, while he held on by the 9th
er and by his feet, and springing up into
his place again without even slackening
speed.
Then he galloped through the streets,
lassoing, dogs, cattle, and even his
friends. l noticed that the rope was
gathered in a coil, with moose at the
end about six feet long; this was swung
around the riders head several times,
and finally projected twenty to thirty
feet, with surprising accuracy, at the OBJ
ject to. be captured. A dog usually
slipped his head out of the loop as it
tightened, and ran away yelping; but
horned creature had to wait until re-
leased.
But the most exciting fun was when
two cowboys, in picturesque hats, and
fantastically fringed leather leggins,
mounted on the briskest Of ponies, at
tempted lassoing each other. As one
flung his rope, the other would dodge it
by dropping down on his horses neck, or
leaning over the side Of his saddle; then
he would spring up and fling his rope in
turn.
Once both were noosed; then it was
diverting to see the trained horses pull
and back and brace themselves, and the
men haul at the ropes, each trying to
free himself and at the same time to
drag down his antagonist. The horses
seemed to understand the friendly game,
and to enjoy il as well as the men,
though they themselves sometimes got
lassoed over the neck or about the legs.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-04-02
Charms Against Toothache.

To put a double nut into your pocket,
to pare your finger nails and toe nails
and wrap the parings in paper, are
charms against the toothache.
In some parts of Sussex, England,
there is a superstition that if you put
On your right stocking, right shoe, and
right trouser-leg before the left you will
never have toothache.
In parts of England there is a custom
of calling the toothache the ''love pain, y"
for which the sufferer is not entitled to
any commisseration. Whether he or she
fully consents to this may perhaps be
doubted.
In the royal library at Stockholm is
preserved manuscript charm for tooth
ache, consisting of Latin prayer to one
Of the saints. At Bonn on-the- Rhine a
tooth, said to have been one of hers, is
shown in a glass case in the Church of
The Saints Day, and the case is devoutly
kissed by people of both sexes as pre-
yentivc against toothache.
An imperial toothache once made the
fortune Of poor barber. The Sultan of
Turkey, having a touch of toothache,
sent for the court physician. He was
hunting, and could not be found. The
domestic hunted about Constantinoplc,
and at last found poor, ragged barber
surgeon. They took him to the palace
and furnished him with proper clothing.
He drew the offending tooth, and soothed
the pain Of the commander Of the faith
full. A nice house and !, 900 piasters a
month was awarded him. Chicago Her.
0ld
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-04-02

The Boston Courier thinks ''some in
renious lawyer might turn an honest
penny into larger coin by publishing a
handbook of the abusive things man
may say to or of his enemy without in
curing the penalty of the statute of Ii
bells. 1t is said to be allowable to call q
man crank, but suppose one called his
adversary an alderman or any term of
similarly deep opprobrium, what thena
Many man with a very pretty talent for
Interpretation is living hampered and
unfruitful existence in consequence of
painful doubts as to what he may or may
not say. A tabulated statement of the
epithets explicitly or by implication al
lowed by the law, would relieve and
guide these perplexed and harrassed
spirits, and be of inestimable value in pro-
noting the well being of society in gen
eral, since the anger which expends itself
in words is not left to shoulder into ran
corous deed and to substitute for the
harmless wounds of the tongue injuries
more potent and enduring"
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-04-02
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Go, lilies, go!
Harold R. vynme

Cutting a swell-Lancing boil.
When does a aman impose upon himselfs
When he taxes his memory.
We haven't much of navy, but some
of the young officers are the best dancers
in Washington.-Puck.
"There's woman at the bottom Of it."
as the man said when his wife fell in the
well.-Hartord Journal
There are few good Indians out West.
One of them has just been exhumed in
a petrified condition. PUCK.
The average woman is considered too
delicate to shoulder musket, but
nobody questions her right to bare arms.
He who has too much to do with the
"ante'' usually ends by having consider
able dealings with the ''uncle. "-B0ston
Courier.
Il wouldn't be fool if I we're you,"
said Jones to friend. ''If you were me
you wouldn't be fool, was the reply.
Judge.
Needles" is the name of town in
California. Itis sharp little town, with
one eye constantly open to its own in
terests. That's sew.-D0nsri1e Breeze.
"Oh whistle and I'll come to you, my lad
She promised with girlish bravado.
But she started on run the other way
When he started out on the Mikado
1[Somerrille Journal.
(Which will you have, chloroform or
laughing gas2" said the dentist to his
patient, about to have tooth pulled.
'Ether will answer" said the customer.
- Wasp.
What time the solar rays begin
To dissipate the storm
The robin on the lawn rakes In
At dawn the early worm,
And then the skies no longer frown,
Then flow the brooks erst frozen,
And mice fresh eggs at once drop down
To twenty cents dozen.
Boston Courier
A Western town has female sheriff.
Recently. she arrested man, and he,
hoping to fiatter her to let him escape,
told her she was the handsomest woman
he ever saw. And did she let him
escape No She wouldn't let that
man out of her sight, anyway, but wanted
him around all the time. Trickery is
sure to fail in the end.-Terds SJtina&
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-04-02
The "Fraid"- Battle in the Air.

Have you heard of the "Fraid" of
New Hope Church2 The night was
dark, as the troops of Hardee's corps,
four abreast and stretching for miles,
marched along a highway from one part of
the memorable battlefield to another. 1t
was 10 o'clock. The stiffness was broken
only by the tramp of innumerable feet
and the rattle of canteens against bayon-
cts. Suddenly in the air, ten feet over
head, burst the crashing and the sIashing
of cavalry battle. In mid air was the
sound of rushing chargers, the clang of
saber meeting saber, the roar, the din,
everything save the shouts and groans
1t was veritable battle of spirits, fought
in the darkness just above the Confed-
crate column, and quick as flash terror
seized Hardee's men. The great line
parted in wild confusion, the soldiers
dashed into the woods, pursued by visions
of Death on the Pale Horse, until weak
from fright many of them sank to the
ground. The horror of those brief sec
Ondsl 1t was not the crash Of shells and
the rattle of musketry, as men met men
in daylight, but it was the unseen battle
of cavalry spirits in the airl 1t was clash
as ghost met ghost. No wonder faces
blanched and knees smote each other as
ears heard what eyes could not see. After
time the noise died away, the officers
rallied the men, and the march was re-
sumed. The soldiers called it 1.-THE
Fraid of New Hope Church, and speak
OF it to this day as one of the awful ex-
periences Of the war 1t is thought the
''Fraid" was caused by some unusual
commotion somewhere along the line,
and that the cavalry battle was the echo
of clashing cabbards.-Atldnta Constitu-
linn
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-04-02

4 writer in the Journal Of Nan, pub
llshed in Boston, holds that "the attain
able limits Of human longevity arc gcner-
ally undcrrated by the medical profession
and by popular opinion" Instead Of
the 5criptural limit Of threescore and
ten, he says, II would estimate twice
that amount, or 140 years, as the ideal
age of healthy longevity, when mankind
shall have been bred and trained with the
same wise energy that has been expended
on horses and cattle OF the present
scrub race, very large number ought
never to have been born, and ought not
10 be allowed 10 transmit their physical
and moral deficiencies TO posterity." J"
lhIs estimate, he insists, is sustained by
the number Of persons Of the age Of 14O
iound in Italy under census by one OF
The Roman Emperors. Il is aided, more
over by the number Of persons in this
country who have passed the century
limit.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-04-02

A bill recently passed the Tennessee
Senate granting pension of ten dollars
month to Confederate and Federal sol
diers who have lost the use of their eyes.
In the House it was amended, the amount
being increased to twenty-five dollars a
month and made available to those who
lost both legs or both arms, or the use of
them, while engaged in active service in
either the Union or Confederate armies,
and who do not receive a pension from
The Federal government.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-04-02
Change For a Quarter.

We imagine that very few people thinl
that quarter Of a dollar can be changed
2i5 different ways. The pieces used il
making the changes are the tweuty-ceni
piece, ten-cent piece, five-cent piece
three-cent piece, two-cent piece, and one
cent piece. To be able to make all thu
changes would require one twenty-cen'
piece, two ten-cent pieces, five five-cen
pieces, eight three-cent pieces, twelve two
cent pieces, and twenty-five one-ceni
pieces, making in all fifty-thrcc pieces O:
money, representing $i.Ss.-AgentS Her
eld.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-04-02
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

improvements having been made inthe
refining of wood alcohol, it is being large
ly used, it is said, to replace the ordinary
alcohol. Fears have lately been expressed
that it is being used in pharmacy as a
substitute for alcohol in tinctures.
It is estimated that from "a, 900 to 35,-
900 cubic miles of rain fall every year up
on the surface of the globe. The rivers
carry off barely one-half; the rest disap.
pears by evaporation, by the absorption
of the earth and by being taken up by
plants, animals and mineral oxidation.
Stingl and Morofsski have recently
confirmed the fact that in the Sofa Bean
there exists ferment of remarkable sac
clarifying power. Two-thirds of the
starch is converted by this ferment into
sugar, and one third into dextrine. This
discovery will, without doubt, increase
greatly the importance of this bean in
agriculture.
The areas of country having an inland
drainage-cqual to 11,4S6, $50 square
miles-receive 2,243 cubic miles of rain
yearly. The total areas draining directly
to the ocean equal "A, 4,212, 600 square
miles, of which IS, s29, $50 square miles
have more than ten inches of annual rain
fall, and discharge into the sea 6,56s
cubic miles of water each year.
In paper before the Meteorological
Society of London, the Hon. II. Abercrom-
by has shown that cumulus is the common
est form of clouds in the tropics; cumulo-
stratus and cirro-stratus in the temperate
tone; and stratus and fog in the Arctic
fegions. Although the forms are alike,
the prognostic value OF any shape is not
the same everywhere, 'woolly clouds demo
ling fine weather IN England and rain IN
Italy.
II the condensed breath collected on
the cool window panes OF room where
number OF persons have been assembled
be burned, smell OF slnged hair VIII
show the presence oil organic matter; ano
II the condensed breath be allowed to re.
main on the windows for few days, 1t
will be found, on examination by micro
scope, that 1T is alive with animalcul@.
1t is the inhalation OF ar containing such
putrescent matter which causes hall the
sick headache, which might be avoided
by circulation OF fresh air.
Mr.. Braidwood, Superintendent of the
London fire-engine establishments, stated
before committee of the House of Lords,
that, by exposure to heat not much ex.
ceeding that of boiling water, timber is
brought into such condition that some
thing like spontaneous combustion takes
place; and that it may take eight years
for the heat from pipes charged with or
used to convey steam, hot water or heated
air, laid among the joists of floor, or in
the heart of partition, or elsewhere in a
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-04-02
A Dietary Experiment.

Lehman, German physician, made
the following experiment: He confined
himself first, to purely animal diet for
three weeks, afterward to purely yege.
table diet for sixteen days, without
marked inconvenience; but upon a diet
Of sugar, starch and ale, he could only
continue for two or three days, owing tc
. disturbance in his general health.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-04-02
TO MOTHER.

In ms heart tender song
Has been sounding very long,
For its tones so wondrous sweet
Were the first my cars to greet,
And shall be the last to roll
Over my departing soul,
Itwas heard in hours of pain
Borne in patience for my gain,
1t was sung to hush my cries,
It was shown in loving eyes,
twas taught my lisping tongue,
And would il might be sung
Sweet as angels sing above
The pure song of mothers lovel
Mothers love! Oh, who shall measure
All the meanings this may treasured
Weary years Of toll and sorrow,
Hopes the sinking heart would borrow,
Prayers that rise through seas of tears,
Fond devotion fringed with fears,
Self-denial, asking none,
Faith, whose course is never run
Mothers love. it never quails,
Till at last the great soul fails,
And the trembling hands are dropped,
And the dauntless hearth is stopped
Then in vain regret we pine
For that mothers love divine
Omy mother!now to you
May my gratitude be true.
Summer has been full of storm,
Winter now enfolds your form,
And your head begins to show
Traces of the failing snow,
Yet would each care erase
From that dear familiar face,
Bring your eyes the happy glow
Of your childhood long ago,
Be one child who did nou .vait
To oreturn before too late
Mothers love, kiss, and caress,
All her latest days to bless.
Richard L. Ddwson, in the Current.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-04-02
THE MISSION OF THE LILIES.


Go, lilies, with your dew-dimmed eyes;
For, ere another sun shall rise,
My lady hies her to the ball.
And, while sweet strains of music fall
About her, she'll, my seraph-sweet,
Crush hearts meath satin-slippered feet;
While I-well, why should l be sad
Who find it bliss to know her gladi
But you must fill your envious part,
Reposing on my Lady's heart.
So,
Go;
Go, lilies, go!
Upon her heartl o lilies fair,
When you are softly nesting there,
Watch ali its throbbings wondrous wclll
For then, perchance, who-who can tell
But that her heart your eyes may see
Give Just one gentle throb for met
And if it should-why, then know
One of you'll live to tell me so.
So.
Go;
Go, lilies, go.
-Hdrold r. Vynfe
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-04-02
THE
Charlotte Messenger
Is PUBLISHED
Every Saturday.
CHARLOTTE, N. c.

In the Interests of the colored People
of the Country.
Able and well-known writers will contrib
ute to its columns from different parts of the
country, and it will contain the latest Gen
eral News of the day.
THE MESSENGER is first class newspaper
and will not allow personal abuse in its col
umns. 1t is not sectarian or partisan, but
ependent-dealing fairly by all. It re-
serves the right to criticise the shortcomings
Of all public officials commenting the
worthy, and recommending for election such
men as in its opinion are best suited TO serve
the interests Of the people.
1t is intended to supply the long felt need
Of newspaper to advocate the rights and
defend the interests of the Negro American,
especially in the Piedmont section of the
CarOlinas
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w.c. SMITH. Charlotte N c.
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SUBSCRIPTIONS:

LAl,cays in Adrance.)
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20
Household;

In the literature of the aaY "society
queens" find frequent mention, but the
queen of the household, according to the
children's rhyme, is in the kitchen, and
whether competent 10 rule or not, her
sway is arbitrary and her mandates imE
perstive. Incompetency is so often the
rule that various are the devices otthe
heads of families to effect change of
dynasty, and by cooking schools and other
means prepare wives and daughters to st
least wisely direct the workings of so i'm
portant department in domestic
economy; aud to substitute thrift for
wastetulness, neetness for the want Of it.,
and order for chaos. A woman who sits
81 the helm must be capable of guiding
the vessel, or disaster will follow.
The kitchen ought to be the first object
of consideration; that housekeeper who
fails to recognize this room to be Of
primary Importance will find total lack Of
comfort for her family, and will also feel
herself cramped and stinted in her
Inequalities. Ample provision should
then be made for all exigencies
that may arise, in order
that the arrival of unexpected guests or
the advent Of visitors need occasion no
annoyance.
Primarily the kitchen should be large,
airy, well lighted room. The sooner
southern builders are made to believe
that the requirements of modern house
keeping cannot be met in an eight by ten
shanty stuck at the back OF handsome
house the better. Such an sppendsge is a
: sgrace to the arcnItect and trial OF
patience to mistress and maid. The walls
should be plsstered, finished in dark tint,
chair-board (the old fashioned term)
extending along the sides, the floor and
woodwork finished iu oil, as this saves
much unnecessary labor. The stove or
range should be of the best make, not too
large, as then it consumes too much fuel
and gives out unnecessary heat; No. 8 in
cook stoves meets the requirements of
average families; 8 smaller sizs is trou-
5lesome in baking, and this number is
sufficiently large for a family of swelve.
A pantry adjoining well furnished with
shelves and bins for q Jur and meal is in
dispenseble. A dresser in the kitchen
with kettle closet underneath is also an
important sdjdnct; with this, one table
having drawers will suffice. The cooking